Syncing Spark Learn Calendar for VMS2, VMS3, and VMS4

Introduction

Your school calendar can be easily added to any of your devices. The current system allows for one years’ worth of events to be added to your device.

Windows

  1. Log into Spark Learn. If you are not logged in, you will get an error. Make sure it says your name at the top right of the page!
  2. Click ‘Calendar’ in the top menu
  3. Click the ‘Export Calendar’ button below the calendar
  4. Select ‘All events’ and ‘Custom range’ radio buttons
  5. Click ‘Get calendar URL’. This is important! You don’t want to export the calendar, as this creates a static file that will not update as class times, lecturers, etc. are changed!
  6. Click the URL provided by Spark Learn
  7. Your default calendar application should open. Just click through the dialog boxes to ensure the settings you prefer (this is vague because different calendars have different dialog boxes). Then click ‘Ok’ or ‘Add calendar’ to add it to your client.

Mac

  1. Log into Spark Learn
  2. Click ‘Calendar’ in the top menu
  3. Click the ‘Export Calendar’ button below the calendar
  4. Select ‘All events’ and ‘Custom range’ radio buttons
  5. Click ‘Get calendar URL’. This is important! You don’t want to export the calendar, as this creates a static file that will not update as class times, lecturers, etc. are changed!
  6. Copy the URL provided by Spark Learn
  7. Open Calendar (the application on your computer)
  8. In the menu at the top of the screen, click File > New Calendar Subscription
  9. Paste the URL into the textbox, then click ‘Subscribe’
  10. In the next popup, name the calendar
  11. If you are also wanting to push this calendar to all of your iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), be sure that ‘Location:’ is set to ‘iCloud’ rather than ‘On my Mac’.
  12. Set the auto-refresh to whatever you’d like. We recommend every 5 minutes.
  13. Click ‘Ok’.

iOS

Firstly, if you have a Mac and want your calendar synchronized with it, refer to the section about adding calendars to your Mac. It will automatically add it to your iPhone/iPad/iPod without having to do anything.

If you are adding the calendar to only your iOS device, follow the instructions below:

  1. Log into Spark Learn
  2. Tap the menu button at the top right (looks like three horizontal lines stacked)
  3. Tap ‘Calendar’ in the resulting menu
  4. Tap the ‘Export Calendar’ button below the calendar
  5. Select ‘All events’ and ‘Custom range’ radio buttons
  6. Tap ‘Get calendar URL’. This is important! You don’t want to export the calendar, as this creates a static file that will not update as class times, lecturers, etc. are changed!
  7. Copy the URL provided by Spark Learn. Be sure to copy all the way from ‘https://’ to the end of the URL.
  8. Press your home button and navigate to your ‘Settings’ application
  9. Tap ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’
  10. Under ‘Accounts’, tap ‘Add account’
  11. Tap ‘Other’
  12. Under the Calendars heading, tap ‘Add subscribed calendar’
  13. Paste the URL you copied into the text box. Some new options should appear – you don’t need a username or password to add the calendar.
  14. Tap ‘Done’

Android

  1. Log into Spark Learn on your desktop/laptop. Don’t do this on your phone! Android calendar synchronization is done through Google.
  2. Click ‘Calendar’ in the resulting menu
  3. Click the ‘Export Calendar’ button below the calendar
  4. Select ‘All events’ and ‘Custom range’ radio buttons
  5. Click ‘Get calendar URL’. This is important! You don’t want to export the calendar, as this creates a static file that will not update as class times, lecturers, etc. are changed!
  6. Copy the URL provided by Spark Learn. Be sure to copy all the way from ‘https://’ to the end of the URL.
  7. Log into your Google Calendar
  8. In the left menu, under ‘Other Calendars’, click the boxed downward-facing arrow (to the right of the text), then click ‘Add calendar by URL’
  9. Paste the URL into the textbox and click ‘Add calendar’

Windows Phone

  1. Log into Spark Learn on your desktop/laptop. Don’t do this on your phone! Windows phone calendar synchronization is done through Windows Live.
  2. Click ‘Calendar’ in the resulting menu
  3. Click the ‘Export Calendar’ button below the calendar
  4. Select ‘All events’ and ‘Custom range’ radio buttons
  5. Click ‘Get calendar URL’. This is important! You don’t want to export the calendar, as this creates a static file that will not update as class times, lecturers, etc. are changed!
  6. Copy the URL provided by Spark Learn. Be sure to copy all the way from ‘https://’ to the end of the URL.
  7. Log into your Windows Live account and select the calendar
  8. Select the ‘Subscribe’ option at the top right of the screen
  9. Paste the calendar URL and click ‘Okay’ to subscribe to the calendar.
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